incompetent

i just saw neurosis. holy shit, that band is so good.

yesterday, i went to some hot springs with a ben, niles and joel... what became the thanksgiving day men's retreat 2006.

it was freezing. here's the dudes starting the short hike to the springs...


here's my ass. peeing.


here's a sign we made sure not to miss.


here's ben's ass.


here's joel.


here's niles.


at this point in the trip, i quit taking pictures, as a giant caravan of hippies and their obnoxious kids showed up, got naked (including the kids) and started invading our personal space, splashing, and generally harshing all the hot-spring mellow we had gone there for.
now don't me wrong. i'm all for nature and all that hippy shit. but you don't let your 3 year old get naked, hop into a pool with naked old men and visibly aggravated twenty-somethings and just let them clamber, naked, all over naked strangers. that's just weird, and bad parenting. if i was a pedophile, i'd make sure to go to clothing-optional hot springs, because apparently that's a hot spot for naked, free-loving children. gross. until yesterday, i had never minded hippies and even considered myself one. now i'm pretty sure that i'm just a jerk.

anyway, then we came home and ben and i went to this girl's house who just happened to have all kinds of vegan thanksgiving deliciousness sitting around. so i still got to feast thoroughly on thanksgiving, despite near-hippie-homocide at the hot springs.

i finished this the other day. yaaay.